New task submission: Concatenate

[Joshua Davis <js...@bellatlantic.net>]

Well... it's not very exciting, but it has been usefull for me and the team
at work.
BTW, Is this the right way (format, etc.) to submit code?  I'm an OpenSource
newbie.

Joshua Davis
joshua_davis@mindspring.com

RE: New task submission: Concatenate

[Joshua Davis <js...@bellatlantic.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Oxspring [mailto:roxspring@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 6:54 PM
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: RE: New task submission: Concatenate
>
>
> What is the opinion on this task?

I think the ANT-ers are too close to releasing 1.3 to include this... oh
well.

> Personally I'd prefer to
> see the task begin referred to as "concat" or the full "concatenate" since
> "cat" seems a bit abstract and too *nix like for me, but otherwise no real
> complaints.

Yeah, I thought about that too.  I decided on 'cat' because it would be
familiar for those who have made lots of makefiles on UN*X / Linux.  It also
fits well with the 'chgrp' and 'chmod' tasks.

>
> I've started playing with the code to make it Java 1.1 friendly (done) and
> add some support for ordering the the files in the concatenation - aiming
> for attributes; order="none|name|path|length|date" (i.e. any
> metric I could
> find in the File object!) and ascending="true|false" (work in progress).
> Any thoughts? are thought crimes afoot?

Cool! Post it when UR done.

> One other thought I had was whether ordering functionality should
> be lumped
> in with all filesets so that other tasks could take advantage of
> ordering...
> would this be useful to anyone?

There are a few things I didn't do becuase this would involve changes to the
base code, which I didn't want to do for my first sumission:
- Ordering.
- Applying 'filters' (like copy)... the method that does the token
substitution is not visible. :(

>
> Rob
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joshua Davis [mailto:jsd2000@bellatlantic.net]
> > Sent: Saturday 13 January 2001 18:54
> > To: Ant-Dev@Jakarta. Apache. Org
> > Subject: New task submission: Concatenate
> >
> >
> > Well... it's not very exciting, but it has been usefull for me
> > and the team
> > at work.
> > BTW, Is this the right way (format, etc.) to submit code?  I'm an
> > OpenSource
> > newbie.
> >
> > Joshua Davis
> > joshua_davis@mindspring.com
> >
>
>
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RE: New task submission: Concatenate

[Rob Oxspring <ro...@yahoo.com>]

What is the opinion on this task? I like it and had begun writing a similar
task before, but then this dropped from the sky!  Personally I'd prefer to
see the task begin referred to as "concat" or the full "concatenate" since
"cat" seems a bit abstract and too *nix like for me, but otherwise no real
complaints.

I've started playing with the code to make it Java 1.1 friendly (done) and
add some support for ordering the the files in the concatenation - aiming
for attributes; order="none|name|path|length|date" (i.e. any metric I could
find in the File object!) and ascending="true|false" (work in progress).
Any thoughts? are thought crimes afoot?

One other thought I had was whether ordering functionality should be lumped
in with all filesets so that other tasks could take advantage of ordering...
would this be useful to anyone?

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Davis [mailto:jsd2000@bellatlantic.net]
> Sent: Saturday 13 January 2001 18:54
> To: Ant-Dev@Jakarta. Apache. Org
> Subject: New task submission: Concatenate
>
>
> Well... it's not very exciting, but it has been usefull for me
> and the team
> at work.
> BTW, Is this the right way (format, etc.) to submit code?  I'm an
> OpenSource
> newbie.
>
> Joshua Davis
> joshua_davis@mindspring.com
>